I don't think they entirely made it up, but i do believe the "driving while black" stories are like fishing stories. I think a bunch of people get around a table and swap stories and by the time the story has been passed around six times it has gone from "my friend got pulled over and he was only going 8 MPH over the limit and the cop was a little rude" to "My friend got pulled over FOR NO REASON at all. It's because he was BLACK. He wasn't doing nothing wrong. And the cop started shoving him and treated him like an animal.". If there are so many examples of "driving while black" being the only reason people are pulled over, why don't we see a parade of videos where black people were truly obeying the cops directives and yet the cop still pulls them out and beats them and shoots them. That's never what we see. What we see is that the black person was being belligerent and antagonistic and disobeying LEO commands and when the LEO continues to do their job, it escalates into a physical confrontation and the other stuff. In other words they were doing the opposite of "The Talk" and acting like a threat, so they were treated like a threat.
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